You will find here information about specialized facilities, that are required to organize audio and video conferences in distance learning clasrooms.

Audio and Video

 
Audio and Video

Telecommunications Wiring Considerations:

video1. The classroom should be prepared for being stuffed with a lot of equipment, all wires and outlets should be ion good condition for that.  There are necessary thing for today, but if you have enough money try to provide things which can be in demand for not very long future. Don’t think it’s a waste of funds; all this costs will be justified. 

2. Use conductor of at least 1" inside diameter for wall-to-ceiling runs. Install conductors and wall boxes every 10 feet of wall length, even if you do not pull cables into it now. The conductor will be there for future needs without having to rip the wall open later. Boxes should be square in size. Conductor can open to a cable tray above the ceiling. Use the conductor of approximately 2 inch diameter instead of 1 to free some place for cable.

3. Data jack and telephone slot must be inserted into every wall in the classroom. Try to place them in such a ways that they to be accessible from the point of view of well planed interior. You must consider all possible rearrangements and new equipment appearance in your classroom.  Telephone cables should be CAT 3 and data network cables should be CAT.

  4. It is desirable for all telecommunications cabling to homerun back to an intermediate or main distribution frame (Telco closet).

5. Plan to include in your process of telecommunicated classroom design as professional, who will conduct all the work with carefulness and care. That person should possess necessary information about wiring standards.

Dial-up, Two-Way Compressed Videoconferencing:

1. All your plans about the classroom, its technical and possible future equipment you may discuss with your communicational consultant, whom its advisable to provide.

2. The videoconference gives students a possibility both to see and to hear each other or the tutor while the teaching process.  Just as you use a speakerphone to participate in a Wisline meeting, or a computer uses a modem to access a phone line, the videoconference uses a device called a "CODEC" (compression-decompression).

Now as the technological progress goes on there have appeared new types of internet connection that doesn’t require wires. The wireless internet connection gives an opportunity to access World Wide Web without occupying the telephone line.